Tag: Washington Huskies

Arizona State basketball has, thus far, been immune to the rough start plaguing Pac-12 this season. The Sun Devils head into Friday's Basketball Hall of Fame Classic the conference's sole undefeated; its highest ranked team; and, arguably, as one of the most exciting teams in college basketball. Arizona State has flourished with an uptempo, high-scoring…

Don't leave us, college football. The world needs you now more than ever. Championship Week, the Army-Navy Game and the bowl season still remain; not to mention the always exciting FCS Playoffs kicking off Saturday. However, this is the last complete college football Saturday of 2017. The 2017 season to date has been one of…

Arizona State football seasons followed a particular trend over the years. The Sun Devils often start about as hot as hot as Tempe's September mercury, then cool off once October arrives. Last season, for example, Arizona state went undefeated in September, lost Oct. 1 at USC, but rebounded the next week with a win over…

Pac-12 Country served as the epicenter for college football's chaotic past weekend, with two of the four Top 10-ranked teams bounced coming from the West. Not to downplay either of the other two upsets that rocked the national landscape, but LSU beating Auburn was certainly less surprising than Cal dominating Washington State on Friday night…

So...what can be said about Arizona quarterback Khalil Tate's performance in a 45-42 Saturday at Colorado that wasn't already expressed by an exasperated Buffs cheerleader? While the utter shock on one observer's face nicely summarizes Khalil Tate's FBS quarterback record 327 yards rushing with four touchdowns on the ground and a fifth passing, plenty more…

Bryce Love is following the same path from the Bay Area to New York that previous Stanford running backs Toby Gerhart and Christian McCaffrey traversed. Love's 303-yard rushing performance against Arizona State propelled him into the forefront of early-season Heisman conversation, and puts him on a pace to break Barry Sanders' single-season rushing record. At…

Last December's Pac-12 Championship Game went to halftime with Washington ahead of Colorado 14-7, and I was ecstatic. It was my fourth year covering the Pac-12 Championship, and the three previous installments ended in scores of Stanford 38, Arizona State 14; Oregon 51, Arizona 14; and Stanford 41, USC 22. Each of those three contests…

The Open Man weekly* Q&A isn't just a forum for your college football and basketball questions. In fact, some of the best reader-submitted material deviates, as this week's question on the best Sunny episodes of all-time demonstrates. For those who don't know -- and really, why would you? -- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia ranks…

With the July Fourth holiday in the rear-view, the road to college football season is clear. The first round of media day events kick off next week, marking the first major milestone on the way to opening weekend. The Open Man's 2017 College Football Preview revs into high-gear as the fall fast approaches. Setting us…

Irrelevant? Not Isaiah Thomas. The last selection in the NBA draft doesn't get an official Mr. Irrelevant label like his NFL counterpart. So, since the final pick of the 2011 NBA draft is not irrelevant in a recognized capacity, a few official titles for Isaiah Thomas: • NBA All-Star. • The Eastern Conference's leading scorer…

Clemson football owes its place in a second consecutive College Football Playoff championship game to the evolution of its defense under coordinator Brent Venables. Since Dabo Swinney drew the line after the 2012 Orange Bowl -- the result of Kevin Steele's defense giving up 70 points to West Virginia -- Clemson's consistently featured one of…

Week 11 provided yet another eventful weekend in college football -- including several big upsets that are sure to cause a major shakeup in the College Football Playoff rankings. Three top-4 teams -- No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Michigan and No. 4 Washington -- were all defeated for the first time all season. That will make…

Precedent dictates certain criteria for Heisman contention: A candidate must typically be either the quarterback or running back of a national championship-contending team, with very few exceptions in the award's history. So, when a Florida State fan site lamented Dalvin Cook's drop in the Heisman race following the running back's best game of the season,…

ESPN airs the first College Football Playoff rankings tonight at 7 p.m. ET, and the affair is sure to be controversy-free, right? I mean, the Associated Press Top 25 and Coaches Poll both have the same unbeaten teams ranked in the Top 4, so there's no way the Playoff committee could possibly deviate, right? Well...…

Week 9 provided yet another eventful weekend in college football -- most notably the matinee matchup in the ACC. No. 3 Clemson defeated No. 12 Florida State in a game that went down to the wire. The weekend also provided yet another convincing performance from Michigan, a huge upset in the SEC East and another victory…